Parent Center
Talented and Gifted Program
The Talented and Gifted program provides those students who are intellectually gifted and have an extraordinary potential for achievement with an opportunity to participate in special activities designed to meet their substantially high educational needs.
Criteria for entrance into this program include:
1) Assessment through a multi-modal identification process, wherein no singular mechanism, criterion or cut-off score is used for determination of eligibility
2) Evaluation and assessment of academic achievement, academic performance, creative thinking, and cognition/intelligence.
Evaluation procedures include:
1) Systematic child find and individual screening in the areas of academic performance, creative thinking, and academic achievement if needed.2) A team review of individual screening results.
3) Referral for individual comprehensive assessment based on results from individual screening information. The comprehensive assessment includes individual evaluation of cognition or intellectual ability and individual evaluation of academic performance, creative thinking, and academic achievement.
4) The evaluation of the procedures in the four areas of evaluation.
5) The assessment and documentation of how the child's intellectual giftedness adversely affects educational performance in the general education curriculum or learning environment.
Information shall be gathered from the following persons in the evaluation of intellectual giftedness:
1) The parent(s) or guardian(s) of the child
2) The child's referring teacher, or a general classroom teacher qualified to teach a child of hi/her age, who is familiar with the student. (If the child is less than school age, an individual qualified to teach a child of his/her age, who is familiar with the child)
3) An appropriately licensed school psychologist, licensed psychological examiner, or licensed psychologist.
4) A person who meets the employment standards of gifted education, or a licensed special education teacher.
5) Other professional personnel, as needed.
This information was obtained from the State of Tennessee website at: http://www.state.tn.us
Page Created By: David Kunsman
Updated By: David Kunsman
Last Updated: May 2007